Dragan

Spellings & scripts●

Locally spelled Драган in RU Russia.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Languages●

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Dragan is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

• German given name39K records spelled Dragan15 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Germany, United States, Austria, Australia

  Languages: German, English, Dutch

  Also written Draegan, Drägan, Drağan, Drǎgan, Drăgan

• Spanish given name10K records spelled Dragan9 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Serbia, United States, Spain, Bosnia & Herzegovina

  Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

  Also written Drãgan, Dragañ, Drăgan, Dràgàn

• Romanian given name6.7K records spelled Dragan3 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Romania, Spain, Italy, Serbia

  Also written Drăgan

• Norwegian Bokmål given name2.3K records spelled Dragan7 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland

  Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

  Also written Drăgan

• a separate given name1.5K records spelled Dragan6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in United States, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, United Kingdom

  Also written Dragán, Dràgan, Drăgan, Drǎgan, Dragăn

• Czech given name1.5K records spelled Dragan6 spellings in the group

  Most recorded in Czechia, Slovakia, Serbia

  Languages: Czech, Slovak

  Also written Dragán, Drágán, Drăgan

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Dragan is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

• In Swedish, Dragan är ett slaviskt namn, en utvidgning av Draga, som använts som smekform till sammansättningar med Drag-. Namnet är bildat till ett slaviskt dorog- ’kär, dyrbar’.

  as a name·Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

• Amado, querido

  as a name·25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

• In Russian, "dear."

  as a word·A Dictionary of Period Russian Names (Wickenden / Goldschmidt 1996)

• In Spanish, third-person plural present indicative of dragar

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

• In got, romanization of 𐌳𐍂𐌰𐌲𐌰𐌽

  as a word·kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

XK ASK Kosovo — Kërko Emrin (Name Search) — 83 years between 1917–2023. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

• Dragan Nikolićb. 1943RSSerbian actor (1943–2016)
• Dragan Džajićb. 1946RSSerbian footballer
• Dragan Kićanovićb. 1953RSbasketball player
• Dragan Čovićb. 1956BABosnian Croat politician
• Dragan Đokanovićb. 1958BABosnian politician of Serbian origin
• Dragan Stojkovićb. 1965RSSerbian association football player and manager
• Dragan Mićanovićb. 1970RSSerbian actor
• Dragan Mrđab. 1984RSSerbian footballer
• Dragan Labovićb. 1987RSSerbian basketball player (born 1987)
• Dragan Benderb. 1997HRCroatian basketball player (born 1997)

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 500 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Dragan?

We estimate roughly 27 thousand people bear Dragan (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.

In which country does Dragan have the most bearers?

Dragan is most frequently recorded in Serbia, where it is most often spelled dragan.

How common is Dragan compared with other names?

In Serbia, Dragan is the 3rd most common given name of 10,124 given names recorded there.

Is Dragan a male or female name?

Dragan is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

What does the name Dragan mean?

Recorded meaning: sweetheart